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Jan 14, 2025 | 
newstatesman.com | Hans Kundnani
When Donald Trump was first elected as US president in 2016, the foreign policy establishment came out in defence of the so-called liberal international order – the shorthand for the system of institutions, norms and rules that had developed after the end of World War II – which they feared Trump would trash. Eight years later, Trump is heading back to the White House.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
newstatesman.com | Hans Kundnani
On the day after Donald Trump was re-elected as US president in November, the German chancellor Olaf Scholz dissolved his coalition government of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats and brought forward the election that had been scheduled to take place in September 2025. This has left Germany without a government at a time when many in the European Union think decisive action is needed on both economic and security questions.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
socialeurope.eu | Hans Kundnani
Europeans are torn between fearing the vulnerabilities of American decline and seeing in it a chance to assert their own autonomy, yet Europe’s own challenges suggest this is more peril than opportunity. Europeans are deeply conflicted about the prospect of American decline. On the one hand, they remain dependent on the United States, especially in security terms, and American decline could make them more vulnerable.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
socialeurope.eu | Hans Kundnani
Europeans are torn between fearing the vulnerabilities of American decline and seeing in it a chance to assert their own autonomy. “Pro-Europeans” in Brussels and elsewhere tend to think about European integration in a somewhat linear way. They intuitively see integration as good and “disintegration” as bad.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
almendron.com | Hans Kundnani
In the European parliamentary elections in June, far-right political parties did better than ever before. Two far-right alliances are now the third- and fourth-largest groupings in the parliament, ahead of the centrist Renew Europe group. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally emerged as the largest party by far in the European polls, which prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve his country’s National Assembly and call snap elections.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Hans Kundnani
In the European parliamentary elections in June, far-right political parties did better than ever before. Two far-right alliances are now the third- and fourth-largest groupings in the parliament, ahead of the centrist Renew Europe group. In France, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) emerged as the largest party by far in the European polls, which prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve his country’s National Assembly and call snap elections.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
ipg-journal.de | Hans Kundnani
In Deutschland herrscht allgemein die Vorstellung, dass die Ostpolitik – worunter man gewöhnlich eine Politik versteht, die auf der Idee einer friedlichen Koexistenz mit Russland basiert und auf die Entspannungspolitik Willy Brandts zurückgeht – inzwischen völlig diskreditiert ist. Selbst diejenigen, die zugestehen, dass sie in den 1970er Jahren erfolgreich war, halten sie anscheinend für überholt und sind der Ansicht, sie sollte komplett aufgegeben werden.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
rashmee.com | Hans Kundnani |Jenny Erpenbeck |Michael Hofmann |Rashmee Roshan Lall
France, one of the six founding members of the organisation now known as the European Union, is in a political flux. What effect will that have on Europe? Excerpts from This Week, Those Books offer crucial context with an alternative account of the European project and a prize-winning story about the power balance in relationships, notably between a country and its citizens.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Chiara Martinelli |Edouard Gaudot |Filipe Henriques |Hans Kundnani
A lo largo de la pasada década, Europa ha comenzado a verse a sí misma como una civilización amenazada por influencias externas. Este giro en materia de civilización, alentado por sucesos tales como la anexión de Crimea en 2014 y la crisis de los refugiados en 2015, está impulsado por una noción específica de la identidad europea, razona Hans Kundnani en su libro Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project.
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Jun 19, 2024 | 
newstatesman.com | Hans Kundnani
During the eight years since the Brexit referendum in 2016, there has been a remarkable absence of imagination on the British left. Torn between the demands of Remain and Leave voters, the centre left has tended to frame Britain’s departure from the EU as an inherently right-wing project while refusing to commit to rejoining the single market or the customs union.
